Hello 👋 Hope you are enjoying the event so far. If you want to know why Backstage is not a Platform (and how you can make it one), check out my talk: https://platformcon.com/talks/your-backstage-needs-a-platform I'll be around all day if you have questions!

@Derik Evangelista do you have pointers to the technical details on how you integrated Backstage and Kratix?

@Tom De Wolf you can check these docs to see how you could do the integration from the ground up. In the demo, I'm using the tooling we ship with our enterprise bundle, which includes a couple of custom backstage plugins and images that auto-generate backstage components and templates for promises

thanks @Derik Evangelista! This was a great intro to Kratix. I had not heard of the framework before. I am very surprised that there aren't more frameworks/services in this space. I am considering using Atlassian Compass instead of Backstage, as it is less overhead for my teams to use Compass rather than building out and supporting Backstage. What would the level of effort be to integrate Kratix with Compass, if possible?

hey @Allan Smith, glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, a lot of tools focus on the platform user experience (which should and must be great) but often at cost of the team actually running it! That's why we built kratix focused on the platform engineering team (hence the focus on apis, reusability and customisability, day 2 operations, etc).

What would the level of effort be to integrate Kratix with Compass, if possible?

Kratix works well with any portal out there that has an api. Backstage is nice since it has a declarative UI, so it fits like a glove with the declare-and-converge k8s model. Compass does have an API so you can drive it entirely from within the Kratix Workflows. So the Kratix to Compass is relatively simple to build. We haven't explored much the Compass to Kratix part, but I wouldn't expect it to much effort. Let me know if you'd like us to run a demo to you/your team; we would be happy to have a deeper chat and show some code 🙂

@Allan Smith This blog covers some of the Kratix <> Compass integration that we explored

thanks guys!